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Super Bowl Blackout Caused By Device That’s Supposed To Prevent Outages

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 6:20pm PSTTags: Blackout, Super Bowl XLVII

We now know what caused that blackout during Super Bowl XLVII. New Orleans’ power utility Entergy said today that the 34-minute outage was caused by an electrical relay device designed to prevent power snafus, AP reports. The utility said it’s looking in to whether it was due to a design flaw or a manufacturing defect. However, Chicago-based manufacturer S&C Electric Co., which supplied the relay installed in the Superdome, said separately in a statement that system operators outside their purview had set the device’s trip setting too low, causing the outage. With the second-highest Super Bowl ratings in 27 years, CBS isn’t complaining.

Related: Power Outage In Midst Of Super Bowl XLVII: CBS Celebrates Changing Game Momentum

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Animal Planet’s ‘Puppy Bowl IX’ Surges During Super Bowl Power Outage

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday February 5, 2013 @ 1:16pm PSTTags: Animal Planet, Super Bowl XLVII, TV Ratings

Related: Super Bowl XLVII Pulls In 108M Viewers

The lights going out Sunday in the Superdome may have brought the Super Bowl to a temporary standstill but it reinvigorated Puppy Bowl IX. The annual Animal … Read More »

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Which Super Bowl Ads Were Best Or Worst?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 3, 2013 @ 7:50pm PSTTags: Super Bowl ads, Super Bowl XLVII

Watch the Super Bowl ads there. Comment here. This was their order: Hyundai – Epic Playdate, Century 21 – Mini Mart, World War Z Big Game Spot, Pizza Hut – Hut Hut Hut, The Lone … Read More »

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Power Outage In Midst Of Super Bowl XLVII: CBS Celebrates Changing Game Momentum

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 3, 2013 @ 5:48pm PSTTags: Super Bowl XLVII

CBS Post-Blackout To Honor All Ad Buys

2ND UPDATE: It’s official: Les Moonves is the luckiest Big Media mogul alive now that momentum has changed in Super Bowl … Read More »

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Super Bowl XLVII To Air 6 Studio Film Ads

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday January 28, 2013 @ 7:01pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Fast 6, Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, Super Bowl XLVII

If last year’s record breaking 111.3 million viewers is any indication, Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII is going to be a good place to be seen. But it costs $4 million for a 30 second spot. Despite that, … Read More »

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